Image fusion by using steerable pyramid

Abstract This paper investigates a method for two-dimensional image fusion based on a novel multi-resolution transform called steerable pyramids. Such a transform combines the multi-scale decomposition with differential measurements, which is very useful for feature extraction. An iterative fusion scheme is introduced.

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